The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-12-10
PICKS MUSINGS.
Peck,s Sun.

It is more trouble to elect friend governor of Wisconsin than thought when I espoused the cause of my friend, General Ginty. Though Ginty is a political opponent, he did me a favor once, by allowing me a show for my money, and not raising me out of my boots when held four jacks and he held four kings and an ace. He knew that he had me by the neck, and could cause me to walk home, but his great heart was in the right place, and he simply called me when I had : "rsised him" forty cents, and showed . his. hand. He could have had all I possessed, some twenty shillings, had {; he been bold, bad man, but he acted , the gentleman, and l still inhabit the esrth. Such man would be a good governor, and l would be an ungrate- ful cuss to go back on him. Of course he has no walk-over for the nomina- tion in his party. There are men in his party who seek the nomination, who are politicians with all that the name implies. Taylor is a wicked man, who would turn jack from the bottom, with smile that would dis count the heathen Chinee. McFet- ridge is a man who has the face of a deacon, but who is full of political guile, while Gunther-well, you can see what an unreliable man Gunther is, by his going into the congressional district of another gentleman and electing himself to congress, against the earnest protest of the owner of the district. Egad, that man wants watch ing, or he will take away any office that is not nailed down. General Ginty is man who has never studied the ways of the wicked politicians and he is liable to be taken advantage of. He is an innocent lone fisherman who believes all that is said to him and it is this that has caused me to take up his case, and try to induce the other candidates to settle the candi- dacy by the hay scales or quail eating test, rather than go into a convention and quarrel. The other candidates have refused the overtures that have been made, but l have received prop osition from the other three candi- dates offering to run foot race with General Ginty to decide who shall be the candidate for governor on the Re publican ticket. This is the most cheeky proposition ever heard of. IL is well known that my candidate weighs nearly three hundred pounds If he could unbuckle part of him. self, and take it off and hang it on the fence, 1 would just let him run those fellows race, for fun, but he can't Besides, even in that case, the odds would be in favor of his opponents Taylor is lean and hungry Cassius who has been in training under Dr Johnston, for liver trouble, and fol months he has been running foot races taking them as medicine, while Me Fetridge is slim fellow, who walks all over Dodge county, shaking hands with the people, and could hold his breath and run mile very sudden Then Gunther, the other candidate, is leading German turner, an athlete If those gentlemen think l am going to put my candidate, handicapped as he is with the solid flesh that he car ries so beautifully among men, into 6 foot race, they are mistaken. am willing to match him against them ir game of seven-up, to see who takes the nomination. If they refuse this proposition I shall allow General Ginty to sit down on each of the other candidates, and flatten them out SC their friends will never know them This is my ulti- -pomdtum.